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Bücher

Die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler des MPIWG veröffentlichen zahlreiche Bücher, darunter Monografien, Gruppenarbeiten und Sammelbände. Unsere Arbeitsgruppenbücher, eine institutsspezifische Publikationsform, sind von zwei oder mehr Autorinnen und Autoren verfasste Bände, die aus einer intensiven Zusammenarbeit entstehen.

2007
Working Group Volume

Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870

The cultural history of heredity: scholars from a range of disciplines discuss the evolution of the concept of heredity, from the Early Modern understanding of the act of "generation" to its later nineteenth-century definition as the transmission of characteristics across generations.

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Working Group Volume

Physiker zwischen Autonomie und Anpassung: die Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft im Dritten Reich

Welche Rolle spielte die Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft in den Jahren der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft, welche Position nahm sie im Prozess der wissenschafts- und forschungspolitischen Neuorientierung ein und was war ihre Funktion im politischen Macht- und Handlungsgefüge des Dritten Reiches?

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Working Group Volume

Positioning the History of Science

The present volume, compiled in honor of an outstanding historian of science, physicist and exceptional human being, Sam Schweber, is unique in assembling a broad spectrum of positions on the history of science by some of its leading representatives.

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Working Group Volume

From Embryology to Evo-Devo: A History of Developmental Evolution

Historians, philosophers, sociologists, and biologists explore the history of the idea that embryological development and evolution are linked.

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Working Group Volume

The Genesis of General Relativity

The most in-depth study of the major scientific revolution of the 20th century

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Special Issue (Working Group Volume)

Believing Nature, Knowing God

The title of this issue of Science in Context – “Believing Nature, Knowing God” – is intended to suggest the moral, emotional, and cognitive conditions in which the historical alliance of “nature” and “God” operated, and to make a more general point about knowing and believing.

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Working Group Volume

Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology

A history of raw materials and chemical substances from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries that scrutinizes the modes of identification and classification used by chemists and learned practitioners of the period, examining the ways in which their practices and understanding of the material objects changed.

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Working Group Volume

Observing Nature - Representing Experience : The Osmotic Dynamics of Romanticism 1800-1850

In the early nineteenth century, the translation of nature observations into quantified records often intended to convey both epistemologically and aesthetically determined forms of experience. The book investigates the intriguing complexity of this 'osmotic dynamics', in which various positions on the significance of inner and outer world were continuously exchanged.

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Book

Historische Epistemologie zur Einführung

Erst allmählich entwickelte sich im Laufe des 20. Jahrhunderts ein komplexes, sozialhistorisch und denkhistorisch motiviertes Nachdenken über Wissenschaft, das in seinem Kern darin bestand, die Wissenschaftsphilosophie zu historisieren.

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Book

Objectivity

In the middle decades of the nineteenth century objectivity established itself as a (if not the) cardinal epistemic virtue in the sciences. From astronomy to paleontology to physiology, new ways of making images, assessing error, and designing experiments were enlisted in the service of objectivity.

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2006
Working Group Volume

Der Hochsitz des Wissens: das Allgemeine als wissenschaftlicher Wert

In dem Band geht es um die Wiedereingliederung von konzeptuellen und theoretischen Aspekten in die Wissenschaftsgeschichte nach dem »practical turn«.

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Working Group Volume

Is there Value in Inconsistency?

Isn't consistency simply another word for intellectual integrity? The fact that actions are inconsistent may be due to the imperfection of the actors. The internal contradictions may also be the work of opportunistic individuals, seeking their own advantage.

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2004
Working Group Volume

Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science

Imagine a world without things. There would be nothing to describe, nothing to explain, remark, interpret, or complain about. Without things, we would stop speaking; we would become as mute as things are alleged to be. In nine original essays, internationally renowned historians of art and of science seek to understand how objects become charged with significance without losing their gritty materiality.

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2003
Book

Experiments, Models, Paper Tools: Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century

In the early nineteenth century, chemistry emerged in Europe as a truly experimental discipline. What set this process in motion, and how did it evolve? Experimentalization in chemistry was driven by a seemingly innocuous tool: the sign system of chemical formulas invented by the Swedish chemist Jacob Berzelius

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Edited Book

Rulers as Authors in the Islamic World: Knowledge, Authority and Legitimacy

How widespread was authorship among rulers in the premodern Islamic world? The writings of different types of rulers in different regions and periods are analyzed in this book, from the early centuries in the central lands of Islam to 19th century Sudan.

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